PART 5 – A VISIT TO THE DOCTOR ~ It’s about time!

~ Written:  Wednesday, 5th July 2017 ~ Continued from last post…
 
My son will buy some kind of bracket tomorrow to work on my hard drive externally using his own computer. He's going to have to try and rescue all my information off of it to put on a new hard drive... I feel positively sick about it all, but holding on I hope and faith. Praying hard too.
 
Been awake since 02:30 again... exhausted from all the adrenaline excess... even been having moments of heart pain which is scary. I used to have that when I was married... adrenaline causing some kind of contraction on the bottom end of the heart I was told then… I think they said, the apex of the heart… I’m taking Rescue tablets under my tongue to try and relax more...
 
With no work commitments to use as an excuse, I decided that it was high time I went to see a doctor for the pain in my right side, which I’ve imagined was in my liver ever since 2012 when it started. 
 
Last year in November, my middle son and daughter both agreed to help me with a third each of the fee for a medical aid, so that I could at least go onto a lower end Medical aid which would still be way better any day than having to go to the Govt hospital!
 
Thursday, 6th July
Plucking up the courage today to make an appointment to go see a Dr... first time since I got onto a medical aid in November last year. I need to have this pain in my liver area seen to...
 
Made sure I slept last night by taking ¼ sleeping pill, so hopefully less anxiety today... so far I'm still struggling though!
 
Later… I did it! Booked for 2 pm today... EEEEK! Anxiety reaching new heights!
 
After the visit… He wanted me to have a sonar or some kind of scan, but my medical aid doesn't cover that, so I had an x-ray and blood tests. The X-ray shows no problem with my liver. I'll have to wait for blood results, so hopefully all good. He suspects that I have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)...
 
I told the nurse on the phone when I made the appointment, that I'd like a kind Doctor and I was Banting, etc... so she assigned me to one who I really trusted immediately. He chatted with me like a friend and seemed patient and kind… and he’s a pro-Banting doctor… what more could I ask for! The whole place is so much better than the govt hospital... quite jacked up. X-ray department, laboratory, chemist and even a small hospital ward there.  I must be getting better at visiting doctors, because I was not anxious once I was there and even the guy doing the blood test didn’t hurt me at all… in the past, my veins would collapse because I was so scared, and they would have to prick me repeatedly trying to find a vein… this time… no problem at all!  How wonderful!
 
6pm - I have such a nasty headache tonight and very tired, but it was a far less traumatic experience than I've ever had at a Dr visit before... I'm so glad that's done at last... and so grateful to my two children for contributing thirds towards me having a medical aid. What a blessing my children are in my life.
 
Thank you for sharing…
 
~ Panayiota